Minister McVeigh says an overhaul of Queensland's fisheries management is long overdue

Queensland's fisheries management is about to get a comprehensive overhaul, but it's come at the expense of the much-anticipated decision on the future of the crab fishery.

The review, announced today by Fisheries Minister John McVeigh, deals with some 900 pages of legislation for 1500 commercial operations. Mr McVeigh says it'll tackle a range of anomalies and exceptions that have developed over decades and builds on work already being done, including the implementation of a $9 million buyback in the east coast net fishery and crab fishery review. Read the full story here.